Comments on: Paging Page… http://drunkcyclist.com/2008/12/31/paging-page/ Two Wheels. One Dark Lord. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:01:15 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: The Rev http://drunkcyclist.com/2008/12/31/paging-page/comment-page-1/#comment-24391 The Rev Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:11:41 +0000 http://drunkcyclist.com/?p=6389#comment-24391 From what I have read it was announced there would be chaperons for this race. If this is indeed fact then there should be some culpability on WADA, UCI or whoever is responsible for the notification of the athletes. If you are Page and you just had your bell rung and are possibly injured you would be doing exactly what he was doing which was calling his doctor. You would also be doing this thinking that if you are selected for doping control the chaperon would oh I don't know, do his damn job and come knock on your door. How come we are not reading about what an incompetent dip shit this chaperon is? If you are going to end someones career, stop the income that feeds someones kids then you should have your process in place. It is not that hard. From what I have read it was announced there would be chaperons for this race. If this is indeed fact then there should be some culpability on WADA, UCI or whoever is responsible for the notification of the athletes. If you are Page and you just had your bell rung and are possibly injured you would be doing exactly what he was doing which was calling his doctor. You would also be doing this thinking that if you are selected for doping control the chaperon would oh I don’t know, do his damn job and come knock on your door. How come we are not reading about what an incompetent dip shit this chaperon is?

If you are going to end someones career, stop the income that feeds someones kids then you should have your process in place. It is not that hard.

]]> By: giantcu92 http://drunkcyclist.com/2008/12/31/paging-page/comment-page-1/#comment-24364 giantcu92 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:30:26 +0000 http://drunkcyclist.com/?p=6389#comment-24364 That's what gets me. Nobody could get in touch with this guy? I'm thinking maybe he shouldn't have pissed so many people off over in Europe, and I'm sure folks would have come and found him. Again, I don't think he was doping, not even close, but it's still his fault. Ultimately, it's still Page's fault, and nobody else's regardless of what bumbling idiots they are as far as the UCI goes. As I said before, it was easy. Go to the finish. Check the doping check board. Pee. Go home. In the very few races that I did where there was a doping control, I made damn sure that I checked the board before heading home for the day, just in case... That’s what gets me. Nobody could get in touch with this guy? I’m thinking maybe he shouldn’t have pissed so many people off over in Europe, and I’m sure folks would have come and found him. Again, I don’t think he was doping, not even close, but it’s still his fault. Ultimately, it’s still Page’s fault, and nobody else’s regardless of what bumbling idiots they are as far as the UCI goes. As I said before, it was easy. Go to the finish. Check the doping check board. Pee. Go home. In the very few races that I did where there was a doping control, I made damn sure that I checked the board before heading home for the day, just in case…

]]> By: el gnome http://drunkcyclist.com/2008/12/31/paging-page/comment-page-1/#comment-24362 el gnome Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:56:16 +0000 http://drunkcyclist.com/?p=6389#comment-24362 Seems similar to Landis... smells of some sort of scape goating right off the bat. It's not like he walked away from the tin-cup-and-string telephone, and that was it. It's 2009 and their saying there was no way to communicate with him? USADA, WADA... any professional cycling organization? From the outside they all seem to be bumbling hindrances, poorly managed, with poor policy and myopic foresight at best. He'll go down in part because of that. There's more to the story than us arm-chair-cross-fans will ever know. The system over there is beyond knowing from here. Everything is corrupt. I think Page is on the receiving end of it. A poor way for the American Cross pioneer to end. Seems similar to Landis… smells of some sort of scape goating right off the bat. It’s not like he walked away from the tin-cup-and-string telephone, and that was it. It’s 2009 and their saying there was no way to communicate with him?

USADA, WADA… any professional cycling organization? From the outside they all seem to be bumbling hindrances, poorly managed, with poor policy and myopic foresight at best. He’ll go down in part because of that.

There’s more to the story than us arm-chair-cross-fans will ever know. The system over there is beyond knowing from here. Everything is corrupt. I think Page is on the receiving end of it. A poor way for the American Cross pioneer to end.

]]> By: kg http://drunkcyclist.com/2008/12/31/paging-page/comment-page-1/#comment-24361 kg Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:43:11 +0000 http://drunkcyclist.com/?p=6389#comment-24361 The Rev Big Ring is all on Page's side. http://thechurchofthebigring.com/scripture/bullshit The Rev Big Ring is all on Page’s side. http://thechurchofthebigring.com/scripture/bullshit

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